Re: [APML]: Guiding Guidance

["David B. Toth" <ve3gyq@amsat.org>]

At 11:31 AM 9/10/96 -0700, Robin Casady wrote:

>2. Could anyone compare the Meade 201XT guider with the SBIG ST4? I know
>the ST4 is also a camera, but I am mostly interested in guiding. Is the
>SBIG worth twice the price of the 201XT?
>

YES.
While the ST4 does not have a regulated cooler, it IS cooled, and hence will
let you guide on much fainter stars.

Initial reports on the original 201 was that it didn't work. Sounds like the
201XT works but nowhere near as well as the ST4.

A 201 user would have to tell us, but I don't know if it can be used as a
stand-alone unit; the ST4 can.

Dave


David B. Toth, MD
Eden, NC

ve3gyq@amsat.org

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